Song Quotes - Page 4

• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Fear

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Work

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• A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Rain, Angel

  Song: #40

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• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

  Bootsy Collins

  Funny, Music, Fake

  "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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• There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

  Stacie Orrico

  Inspirational, Life, Satisfaction

  Song: More to Life, Album: Stacie Orrico

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• It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

  James Taylor

  Relationship, Time, Long

  Song: You Can Close Your Eyes

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• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

  John Berryman

  Funny, Drinking, Poetry

  1964 'Dream Song No.63'.

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• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  Neil Diamond

  Sex, Hands, Touching You

  Song: Sweet Caroline

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• God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

  India.Arie

  Voice, Different Faces, Creative

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

  Frank Sinatra

  Hurt, Pain, Loneliness

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I've really enjoyed playing live shows, because sometimes things we'll just happen - sometimes a song will go on for 10 minutes. It always depends on the crowd. But it's always kinda different, which is cool.

  SBTRKT

  Different, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

  Dolly Parton

  Love You, Grateful, Heart

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 12, 2012

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• The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

  Lisa Loeb

  Perfect, Trying, Enough Time

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

  Matt Corby

  Artist, Ideas, People

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.

  Noel Gallagher

  Oasis, White, Zorro

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• I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

  Liam Gallagher

  Writing, Want, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

  Laura Mvula

  Writing, Heart

  "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.

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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  Laura Mvula

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• A good song is a good song whatever your age.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Age

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• Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Writing, People, Clubs

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• I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Writing, Thinking, Singers

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• I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Albums, Have Faith

  "Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out". Interview with Kate Kiefer, www.pastemagazine.com. November 2, 2009.

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Musician, Twenties

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• Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

  Patty Griffin

  Moving, Writing, Exercise

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Pleasure, Ecstasy

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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